Grooming at It's a Dog's World

It's a Dog's World is proud to announce that dog and cat grooming will be offered in the store, starting Saturday, November 17th.

Please call 718-684-5568 or email Marion@nydogsworld.com to make an appointment.

593 Coney Island Avenue

Brooklyn, NY 11216

It's A Dog's World - November Classes

Marion sends the latest from It's a Dog's World -

It's a Dog's World will be holding 5 week puppy classes starting Tuesday, November 6 at 7:30 and have 5 week basic training class starting Wednesday, November 7 at 7:30. There is a four dog limit per class so make your reservations now. All classes use state of the art training techniques.

Cat lovers can also find a range of toys and high end food for cats of all ages.
Where do you get your pet food? [Brooklynian]

Go to Compliant Dog for more information about the classes or email marion@nydogsworld.com!

It's a Dog's World 718-684-5568
593 Coney Island Avenue (near Beverly Road)
Brooklyn, New York 11218

Zee Tasty "Trans-Fat Free" Treat in Beverly Square West

From Brooklyn!! - Fall 2007

Brooklyn's own Z Crackers is a family affair. Pam and Keith Pollack are a husband and wife team whose first venture was pizza. One day they rolled the dough out thin, cut it into pieces and, as Keith says, "cooked the heck out of them." And snap! -Z Crackers were born.

The new snack took the Silver Award in Outstanding Cracker category of 2001's Fancy Food Show. Current Z Cracker varieties include red onion and rosemary, garlic and basil, and Kalamata olive. The secret of their great texture: a touch of corn meal.

Like the true family business that it is, the couple's inspirations were familial: to name the crackers, Keith was also influenced by his stepmother, who is French. (Her accent also helped create the slogan, "Z Crackers, Z Best.") Pam used her design skills to create the packaging and web site, and the company recently created Z Cookies, based on a much-loved mandlebrot recipe from Pam's grandmother. In fact the whole impetus behind the business was so that Pam and Kieth could spend quality time with their two daughters, now grown.

And like many family businesses they make sure the whole operation is nearby, the Pollacks live right around the corner from Beverly Square West bakery where the crackers are made. It's a small store that churns out about 20,000 crackers daily. The bakery is wholesale only, so look for Z Crackers and Cookies at store like Whole Foods, Fairway, Union Market, Sahadi's, David's Health Food and the Park Slope Food Coop. Zee best part? Z crackers have no trans fat!


Z Crackers Z Best!
Zee Tasty "Trans-Fat Free" Treat [Brooklyn!! - Fall 2007] print only for now

Flatbush Frolic - Sunday September 16th

From the Flatbush Family Network -

Hi Neighbors,
The Flatbush Frolic is coming this Sunday, September 16th from 11AM-5PM. There will be lots of vendors, rides, food, activities and entertainment by local talent.

Midwood Martial Arts & Family Fitness Center will be there with demonstrations and interactive activities for children and adults.
Look for young children's activities (including Juguemos A Cantar, Music for Aardvarks and Sign A Song) in the PS 139 schoolyard on Cortelyou Road between Argyle and Rugby Roads, right next to the library.
Older children and adults can play on Cortelyou Road between E17th and 18th Streets. There will be basketball hoops and you can sign up to take part in Capoeira, Gymnastics, Karate, and Kickboxing sessions. There will also be a Feldenkrais Method/Bones for Life Q & A session with our instructor, who is a licensed physical therapist.
If you or your child take classes with us you are welcome to help us present the demonstrations. Just let us know you are going to be there and we will include you or your little one in our plans.

FDC can still use some volunteers to assist with the Frolic. Please contact Mannix Gordon at FDC if you'd like to take part.

We look forward to seeing many of you at the Frolic!

Alfred & Alison, MMA & FFC
1302 Avenue H Brooklyn, NY 11230
718-258-KICK www.MidwoodMartialArts.com

Flatbush Frolic [Flatbush Development Corp]

Labor Day Weekend Links

Brooklyn Navy Yard, a Roomy Haven for Industry, Once Again Is Booming [NY Times]
Furnishing From Afar [NY Times]
Preparing the Lawn for Its Winter Nap [NY Times]
Residential Sales Around the Region [NY Times]
The Next… [New York Magazine]
Wake up, Manhattan: New York’s skyline is one of the most distinctive in the world. But the city should stop trading on past glories [Times of London]
70th Precinct reports big drop in crime [Flatbush Life] (link broken check print edition)
Salvage Fest Just Ten Days Away [Brownstoner]
Car Free(r) Park [Ditmas Park Blog]
Signs of life at Cornerstone [Ditmas Park Blog]

We are getting Married! [Farm on Adderly]

Movie in the Garden: Brooklyn Series at The Farm on Adderly

The Farm on Adderley's Movie in the Garden: Brooklyn Series.

Every Tuesday night beginning at 10:00PM. Movie listings below:

July 17th - Bed Stuy
Do the Right Thing (1989)

July 24th - Bay Ridge
Saturday Night Fever (1977)

July 31st- Coney Island
Little Fugitive (1953)

August 7th - Ditmas Park
Squid and the Whale (2005)

August 14th - Williamsburg
Mutual Appreciation (2005)

August 21st - South Slope
Blue in the Face (1995)

August 28th - Park Slope
Dog Day Afternoon

September 4th - Bensonhurst / Boro Park
Out For Justice

Events [Farm on Adderly]

Monday Morning News

The Farm on Adderly gets some well deserved pop in The New Yorker this morning-

At the Farm on Adderley, in Ditmas Park, this means a relaxed, friendly atmosphere; it’s the kind of place where you can bring your yoga mat to dinner and not feel awkward. One Sunday evening, big tables held families with jostling children; nearby, two silver-haired women sipped glasses of scarlet-tinged rosé. The food is precise and unpretentious, served on mismatched china: a chilled cucumber-and-avocado soup, sea-foam green and laced with olive oil, had a tangy sweetness that was juxtaposed with a salty dollop of crab salad; the buffalo-mozzarella salad was a pleasing variation on the standard caprese, pairing green apple and arugula with soft, fresh cheese. The striped bass was laid over a pile of crisp vegetables—asparagus, radish, fava beans—and mussels, with pickled fennel offering a piquant jolt.

Tables for Two: Flatbush Farm & the Farm on Adderley [The New Yorker]

Metro also features Kensington Blog author Jennifer Gannon talking about the changing demographics of the area.

Who’s moving in?

Basically it’s a lot of young couples and a lot of families. When we moved into my building it was like a nursing home but in just four years it has become full of young couples. At least five of the couples in the building are either pregnant or have just had a baby.

Blogarithms: The next Park Slope? [Metro]

Update - Just when you thought you had heard enough about the Farm for the day the good reviews keep on coming. New York Magazine listed the Farm on it's Cheap Eats list for 2007.

The Farm on Adderley
1108 Cortelyou Rd., nr. Stratford Rd., Ditmas Park, Brooklyn; 718-287-3101
Some restaurants are instantly embraced by their famished neighborhoods, and so it was when this casually rustic spot opened last summer in Ditmas Park, a corner of Brooklyn where the Victorian fixer-uppers attract the sort of Manhattan expats who expect to find Cowgirl Creamery’s Mt. Tam on the cheese plate and crispy tofu with sweet corn on the kids’ menu. And so they do at the Farm, where seasonal ingredients are duly worshipped in preparations like housemade fettuccine with peas and pea shoots, and bluefish with corn and okra. To the place’s credit, there is also a serene little garden, a nice long bar where the “local and organic” motto extends to some of the beer and wine, and a respectable English-muffin burger that’s overshadowed by its world-class fries.

Cheap Eats 2007 [New York Magazine]
The Farm on Adderly Keeps Getting The Raves [OTBKB]

Just Sold in Victorian Flatbush - Country in the City!

DITMAS PARK - $899,999
500 East 16th Street

3 bedrooms, 1 full bath, 1 half bath, 1 week on the market.
108 year old mission style bungalow; renovated baths and eat-in kitchen, family room, library, fireplace, finished basement, 70-by-82-foot lot, taxes $2,987; listed at $899,999.
Broker: Mary Kay Gallagher

Residential Sales Around the Region [NY Times]
Recent Sales - Ditmas Park [Mary Kay Gallagher Real Estate]

Weekend News and Events:
Victorian Baths, Unrepressed [NY Times]
The B & B Option Is Put to a New York Test [NY Times]
F train not on track for going express [NY Daily News]
New era for Newkirk Plaza - Some hope formation of BID will bring brighter fortunes [Flatbush Life]
Celebrate Brooklyn To Honor Walt Whitman at Prospect Park [Brooklyn Eagle]
Prospect Park Pond Tour [Prospect Park]
Belle & Maxie August Sale [Ditmas Park Blog]
Last Days at The Associated [Ditmas Park Blog]
Green Point Blogger Meetup [newyorkshitty]

Also today at 1 p.m. today- It's Time Once Again to Lighten Up, Brooklyn via Gothamist.com–
Borough Historian Ron Schweiger will lead a group through one of Brooklyn’s best kept secrets, Victorian Flatbush! Walkers can meet at the Q train Newkirk Avenue station for an educational stroll through four turn-of-the-century Victorian communities. You won’t believe you’re still in Brooklyn!

The Farm on Adderly Celebrates It's One Year Anniversary

photo by Brooklyn Record

From the owners of The Farm on Adderly Gary Jonas and Allison McDowell-

JULY 11TH: THE FARM CELEBRATES ITS ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY!

We'd like to thank everyone for the support along the way with an evening of free drinks, food, and fun! 6:30 to 9:00PM Please stop by! Bring the whole family! Note: There will be no dinner service.

Events [The Farm On Adderly]

Changes on Cortleyou Road

With mixed emotions we heard the news from the Flatbush Family Network last week that the Associated will be sold to The Flatbush Food Co-op on Cortelyou Road. The Associated and it's owners Barry and Leon have been serving everyone in the neighborhood for over 30 years with friendly and exceptional service. The legendary neighborhood grocer will now provide an opportunity for the expansion of the Flatbush Food Co-op. Associated will be open until July 31st so be sure to stop by and give your regards to Leon and Barry. Everyone should keep there ears open for some type of send off party for the future.


Also earlier in the month, Ditmas Park Blog introduced everyone to the new owners of Picket Fence, Vipin and Rama Agarwal, formerly of Balduchi's. We wish the former owners, Graham and Chelsie Meyerson, our best on there new ventures.


Picket Fence's New Owners [Ditmas Park Blog]
Organic Boom on Cortelyou [Brownstoner]

New Pet Food Store - It's A Dog's World on Coney Island Avenue

It's A Dog's World opened in May at 593 Coney Island Ave and offers free delivery to pet owners in Flatbush, Park Slope and Kensington.

From the owner Marion Wiener -

It's A Dog's World is dedicated to providing healthy dog and cat food and treats. It also carries all the supplies your pets need. Our pledge to our customers: We only carry products that are actually good for your pets. Group Dog Training classes at the store and private training at your home are available too.

Here is just some of the great foods we carry: Artemis Merrick, Eagle Pack Holistic Select Natures Variety (raw and kibble), Evinger's Solid, Gold, Innova Wellness

FREE DELIVERY - 10% OFF FIRST PURCHASE - COME IN FOR GREAT FREE SAMPLES AND ADVICE - GROOMING COMING SOON!!

It's A Dog's World
718-684-5568 917-364-1738
593 Coney Island Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11216

Fresh Direct expands delivery into Victorian Flatbush

Fresh Direct has expanded it's service into Victorian Flatbush and other neighborhoods of Brooklyn by adding zip codes 11230, 11210*, 11229*, 11226, 11223, 11218* to the list of available home delivery zones. *(partial)

Now everyone living within the new delivery zones can add Fresh Direct along with Associated, The Flatbush Food Coop and other local shops to the options for your neighborhood food shopping.

Delivery should begin sometime next week check in the new delivery zones, check with Fresh Direct for exact dates for your area. New members receive a 25% discount on their first and second orders using the password THYME.


Delivery Info [Fresh Direct]
Map of Victorian Flatbush [MaryKayG]
Fresh Direct Brooklyn [Brooklynian]
Fresh Direct Expanding to the Other Side(s) of the Park? [Brooklyn Record]

The Latest from the Flatbush Development Corporation

From: fdconline@yahoogroups.com
On Behalf of kestybelle
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 4:26 PM
To: fdconline@yahoogroups.com
Subject:Midwood Park and Fiske Terraace flea market
Sunday May 6, 2007

This Sunday, May 6th, from 10AM - 4PM, the Midwood Park and Fiske
Terrace Associations are hosting a flea market. Come get bargains,
chat with neighbors, and have a generally good time. You will never
know what you can find if you don't come. (I even bought a beautiful
baby grand piano at one of our flea markets!)

Families from Foster Avenue to Avenue H, East 19th, East 18th, East
17th Streets and Wellington, Waldorf and DeKoven Courts and Irvington
Place will feature items for sale.

Come join us for a wonderful day.

Video of Kensington/Ditmas Park

New Years Wine Tasting at T.B. Ackerson

Let T.B. Ackerson make your New Years sparkle!
At least 8 bottles of sparkling wines & champagnes!!

SPECIAL NEW YEARS TASTINGS:
Friday, Dec. 29, 6 to 8
Saturday, Dec. 30, 5 to 7

2 Nights; 8 Wines----Lots of Bubbles!
1205 Cortelyou Rd., between Westminster & Argyle

T.B Ackerson [homepage]
info@TBAckersonWine.com [email]

1205 Courtelyou Road
Brooklyn, NY 11218

T.B. Ackerson Wine Merchants Open for Business

T.B. Ackerson Wine Merchants is officially open for business.

They are having a Grand Opening Party on Saturday November, 18th from 3pm to 7pm.

They will be having wine tasting along with Hors d'oeuvre from The Farm on Adderly.

So please join us in help celebrating T.B. Ackerson grand opening and supporting all of our local merchants both new and old on Cortelyou Road.



T.B Ackerson Wine Merchants
1205 Cortelyou Road

Kings Court Drugs

8 Newkirk Plaza

718.434.6565

Dream of House of Cards and Creations

45 Newkirk Plaza

718.859.9529

Acme Video and More

41B Newkirk Plaza

718.421.0011

Richner's Bookstore/ ChouChou Services C.A.M.

34A Newkirk Plaza

718.421.3950